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Review: Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History –
Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hodder Press)
Around 2,500 years ago, a princess living in what is now modern-day Iraq
collected a number of artefacts, including a statue, a boundary stone and a
mace head. The items, which show signs of preservation, date from around 2100
BCE to 600 BCE. This collection, it is generally thought, was the world’s first
known “museum”.
Between Two Rivers, by Oxford scholar Moudhy Al-Rashid, tells the story of
ancient Mesopotamia, a period in world history sometimes known as a “forgotten
age”.
While Mesopotamian history is innately fascinating, Al-Rashid also notes its
many historical “world firsts”: the first known writing system, the potter’s
wheel, the first record of beer production and advances in agriculture."
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